Business & Finance: Motion For Sale

Stuck in the mud of the last U. S. Depression (1921), Business was
pulled out by a great acceleration of the automobile industry, teamed
with a building boom long deferred by the War. The automobile industry
then looked back a decade and smiled at its gangling youth. It looked
ahead a decade with confidence and composure. Both were justified.

Another ten years and another Depression found the automobile industry
a mighty thing in its maturity. Ranked next to Agriculture and
Railroads in amount of capital invested,...